Congress Wants to Revive Ban on Horse-meat in U.S.

Bill Tomson has details of efforts by Congress to revive a ban on horse-meat processing in the U.S. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... traces of horse meat ... have been found in European peace now lawmakers are looking to reply the ban on horse meat processing here in the U S ... Wall Street Journal's Bill Thompson is in Washington until there are a few firms in the U S they had wanted to open house ... the slaughterhouses for horses is is that correct ... yes and there are there are a couple that are ... preparing to do so ... ok and we now ... hubby did the companies they didn't wanted to ... export the force be with where does agree to go where where would it go ... well that's a big question is did he can go anywhere ... dear ... if a product is produced in the United States indicates a stamp of approval USDA inspected a ... mark of approval ... it can be sold in the United States in their peers there are no products that can only be exported ... that being said ... that the one company that has been talking about this and said they only have plans right now ... um to export it where the biggest market for that is ... in places like in in Europe ... and elsewhere ... op but dead ... officials said they would become been said that they ... would sell in the United States if there's a market for it and some people said yes you know there is a market albeit small been an easy it is interesting in your story you know that ... tens of thousands of courses are slaughtered every year in Mexico and Canada ... that's more or less what other reasons that they caressed allow the barren to slip day in two thousand eleven ... but it was a summer report showing that day ... despite the ban was put in place and back in two thousand and six but did forces are still being slaughtered just elsewhere ... as in other words people here were exporting them to places like Mexico ... and they're being slaughtered there ... and ... it wraps it in ways not quite as ... humane as would be done here ... okay now ... who was supporting the for the revival of the ban ... and what are they saying ... while the animal rights activists she should main society the race is America the STC day ... and said there's a growing movement in Congress to do something about this the legislation was interviews in the Senate and House this week ... the Bible by a IIa it is supported by both Democrats and Republicans ok ... we've only got ten seconds bill doesn't pass ... it looks like a well there's been sober for four before and it looks like supporters world for now so yes is just a matter of ... how long ... okay ... built Bill Tomson in Washington thank so much for joining us